A challenging question

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Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown up.
scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to new
shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so user
can't create new shortcut or new folder?
Thannk you very much.
David
 
Try and make it a bit more challenging next time. ;)

In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context menu.
 
Hey, thats challenging for some people. The IT at my high school a few years
ago obviously didn't know how to do this. Since the security paramaters
weren't in place, I was accused of "hacking" because I created a shortcut to
the C: drive :-P Anyone with at least somewhat computer knowledge should be
able to figure out how to create a shortcut to a drive...
 
Right click on your empty area of your desktop. you will see a menu shown up.
scroll down a little bit, you will see " new" sub menu which will lead to new
shortcut, folder etc... Now How can you gray out this "new" submenu? so user
can't create new shortcut or new folder?
Thannk you very much.
David
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Hello David,

If you don't want to remove the entire right-click context menu as per
the Group Policy edit, but just want to remove the 'New' context menu
item, then open the Registry Editor (Start => Run and type in
regedit).
Navigate to this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New
\
Highlight this key and Backup (File => Export) this key first to a
safe location.
Right-click on the 'default' entry in the right-hand pane => Modify =>
and delete the Value Data
No need to restart.
 
thanks a lot buddy.

Jon Sherry said:
Try and make it a bit more challenging next time. ;)

In Global Policy, User configuration|Administrative Templates|Windows
Components|Windows Explorer|Disable Windows Explorer's default context menu.
Click to expand...
 
Hi Ken,
Just wondering if I disable it in group policy as Jon metioned above, can
user still make new shortcuts anywhere else? or is there another way to map/
create shortcut on C drive?
Thanks,
David
 
No they won't. As long as the group policy that the user is logged in as
does not have access to the windows explorer defaults, this link will
disappear for them in any thing having to do with windows. This will keep
them from creating shortcuts anywhere in windows.
 
You are the man.
Thank you very much.

Claymore said:
Hello David,

If you don't want to remove the entire right-click context menu as per
the Group Policy edit, but just want to remove the 'New' context menu
item, then open the Registry Editor (Start => Run and type in
regedit).
Navigate to this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\New
\
Highlight this key and Backup (File => Export) this key first to a
safe location.
Right-click on the 'default' entry in the right-hand pane => Modify =>
and delete the Value Data
No need to restart.
Click to expand...
 
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